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Update IP filter for qBittorrent
Downloads Bluetack's level 1 IP blocklist in .p2p format, suitable for various Bittorrent clients.

Look for English words in /dev/urandom
* to get the English dictionary: wget http://www.mavi1.org/web_security/wordlists/webster-dictionary.txt

Silently deletes lines containing a specific string in a bunch of files
This command will find all occurrences of one or more patterns in a collection of files and will delete every line matching the patterns in every file

Greets the user appropriately

SSH Auto-login with password
You need to install "sshpass" for this to work. apt-get install sshpass

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Works with *rooted* Android devices. 400x800 are the screen dimensions of a typical handheld smartphone.

One liner to kill a process when knowing only the port where the process is running
-k (kill option ) . To kill all processes accessing this port

For a $FILE, extracts the path, filename, filename without extension and extension.
Useful for use in other scripts for renaming, testing for extensions, etc.


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